for me to tell some people, in addition, it has been said that you can make an elephant disappear. i have many of the 6 brazen example i've seen the men who so football coming soon on. i was just, ah, me, this is al jazeera ah, here watching the news, our life from headquarters in delphi daddy and gave coming up in the next 60 minutes. but i have punches action on what he calls to radical sanctions imposed by the us as he's endorse. does iran new president, an aerial battle that just keeps getting tough for turkey? tries to contain wildfires around popular tourist destination. some of the heaviest

fighting between afghan forces on the taliban and the southern city of less current god. there are fears that might fall to the group on the richardson at the tokyo olympics, west among biles is returning to competition and want a bronze medal at final event. and these games ah, welcome to the news our motor ac has targeted lifting, oppressive us sanctions, as he's officially endorsed. as iran's new president, the ultra conservative comes to power with his country, experiencing a dire economic crisis. the easter says his new government will aim to lift the sanctions, but promised his policies won't be determined by foreign demands. another of his priorities is reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. well,

mann middle we are going to make sure the sanctions are lifted, but we are not going to connect our economy to lifting the sanctions. there are a few issues that the government is facing right now in the budget deficits investment and the stock market. and also controlling the inflation, corrode a virus, and many other basic needs. so i appreciate what the 12 government has done, but we need a short term immediate program to resolve the issues we are facing today. so the 6 year old former judiciary chief succeeds how thunder honie is president after winning the june election with a historically low voter turnout. he's been criticized for his human rights record . however, the easy victory has strengthened the hands of conservatives. he'll be sworn in on thursday when he's expected to submit what he's calling your revolutionary government line up. let's go live to her on and speak to our correspondent, i the hash him so oddly, the new president is facing a number of internal challenges that he outlined how he will actually deal with

them while they're in, in the speech he had in front of the supreme leader during the ceremony, he concentrated a lot on the internal issues on the internal complexities because of the economy situation to die and the economy situation by also a social situation besides the challenges the country is facing. we can't disregard the impact of the sanctions on the union economy over the past. yes . so today brian race is coming with a mandate to get the iranian economy out of this, of this crisis. that's why, from now he started giving promises he's going to have a plan, a clear plan besides the supreme you'd also insisted on insisted on this issue. and it was very interesting that he didn't touch on foreign policy except for him.

just talking about the sanctions and iran not being blinked. he was referring here to the nuclear talks linking iran, future iran st people's future to foreign countries. that means right e c. as after his own plan, he wants to try to find ways to overcome sanctions from in, within the system. and this is going to be one of the very difficult challenges he's going to facing. some people are saying that this might be the government that's going to face the most difficult challenges since the government of hashem fin jenny. that came after the iran iraq war after $989.00 and only with the announcement of his cabinets in the next few days as he outlined himself. what can we expect from him on sort of the foreign policy front? i know you said that he didn't mention it much in his speech, but how much of a priority will the nuclear talks be for him?

it's clear from several codes from, from easy or even from the supreme either before the the ceremony. today. it's clear that the nuclear talks aren't a priority for them. they're looking more inside the looking more for the regional talks may be regional security and then comes the nuclear talks. now as we know that from, from different sources, maybe about actually the head of the nuclear team is going to continue his, his task as a nuclear negotiator. things for sure. are going to change in the foreign ministry . mm hm. a jobs are not going to be the foreign minister anymore. there are several names right now into ron speculations over a former deputy foreign minister and someone who was in the national security council. what does it want to do? we don't have clear or at least confirmations regarding the names. what it's very

clear about the nuclear talks aren't going to be very high on his by artist and he has some reporting from to hon. thank you so much. holly or firefighters and turkey are working round the clock as wildfires continue to spread and coastal resort towns. winds on. temperature is above 40 degrees celsius, are founding 7, fires along the mediterranean and a g and coasts please. 8 people have now died in the region just in the past week. holiday makers, some in forced out of their hotels. thousands have been evacuated from their homes over in italy, the coastal cities of catania pescadero have also been hit by wildfires. residence on terrorists have been evacuated to safety, but the fires continue to burn. cruise say they faced hundreds of flare ups and populated areas in the past few days. we have adam rainy standing by for us in kitty. that's one of the worst effected areas in italy. first, let's bring in russell, sorry that he's running off from turkeys until your province was to talk to us

about what you're seeing and i'll tell you. well, therein we are now in the widow of feather, which is in the town of ginormous, in untidy a promise. and it is one of the worst district in turkey. this is willis edge, the historical village, and just last night. how of the willis has turned into the dogs? the fire here started at 4 am after midnight, and right after that so rapidly the fire spread over the village and got the houses are more did they did when it has 150 houses and at least half of them are either completely destroyed or partly damaged the, the fire trucks here are trying to cooling down the surroundings, but it's quite difficult because it's not predictable where it's going to be the next place that the fire is just going to spread. i can see that there are tons of

the 5 trucks and the firefighters here fight him against the was fire, but their job is quite difficult because the temperature is quite high and the humidity is so low. the mean it's so it's wrong, right behind me just an hour ago. there's what for this, for the fire started and the fire truck are trying to reach there. on the other hand, the helicopter is also getting the water from the mediterranean sea and drop him down over this hot supports so that the 1st report of the wire fire came on wednesday from tide. yes, soon after that there has been several reports about the wildfire erupting in more than 30 province just across the country. a people had been killed by the fire, so far humbles of people are hospitalized and hundreds of the waiters also are you there, created the international a those these put in in and from the, from the country and abroad as well. i will say,

because while we're just talking to the villagers, we could see that there are different crew is coming from different cities far to these from turkey, but the winters here, they are complaining a lot that the work is not sufficient enough. even though the goldman says that they mobilize all the means that the country has the 3rd, the international support they'll say, here are going to be john, ukraine, iran and, and russia for, for, has sent the crabs, the water carry a crop and how to cook. there's the pay increase show so that be done today. the pilots cuts from spain just arrived on time. did they have been briefed about the house? suppose but for now, the government says that 134 locations the fight was under the control. while there are, can there act the zones that the fight is still continued during? they can say that turkey the worst for us fire or it's more than history. ok,

thank you so much for that. update from turkey restore. let's cross over to italy. autumn rainy is joining us from kathy adams. so how concerned are authorities about the situation where you are in the surrounding areas right here during can't t, the fires have been put out for the most part were south of scott about 20 kilometers. we're right on the adrian coast. i can see the sea from where i'm standing. and what you might see behind me is a burnt olive grove. and we're seeing a lot of these in these region. they're mainly family operations. people make their own olive oil, but these olive trees just fueled fires over the weekend weekend and families are now coming back families we've been seeing and assessing the damage at their properties. some of these olive trees date back century. so there's a lot of heartache and heartbreak that we're seeing with the family to as they returned. some of them have lost property as well in addition, but they're really assessing the situation of fire brigade just passed us moments

ago. there also seeing if any of these fires still have dress embers, but here in the center of italy, they've gotten a break in the hot weather. it's still warm. it's about 30 degrees where i'm standing right now. but the real problem is south of here in puleo and calabi and physically where fire brigades are struggling against 40 degree temperatures. here on tuesday, fires are not totally under control. we're hearing from the fire center fire brigades that they have more than 120, still burning their operating flights to put out some of these fires, but they're really what they're doing is struggling against really unbearable heat right now. an atom, the situation is of great concern as well across the southern european continents. exactly. the problem that we're seeing and physically here in italy is replicated in grief, in places like roads, where there still haven't been able to control fires an island just off the turkish coast. outside of athens, there's some score. it starts from 3000 heck,

tears been damaged and fires that they're still making sure are under control. so we're not seeing a stop to this threat right now doing in southern italy or greece as we just heard from turkey because the weather is just not cooperating. with these firefighters, we're going to see these 40 degree and higher temperatures coming still strong on tuesday in into wednesday, and perhaps into thursday and some of these parts and what firefighters are just gonna have to keep the focus on control. these fires the best they can, despite those very tough weather conditions during on a rainy. thank you so much for that update from italy once more had on the altar, renews our including plain term rights groups that a bell russian activist was killed in ukraine as part of a planned operation. a race to contain a highly contagious outbreak of covered 1900, what china's doing to keep the virus out of its capital.

and one of the best performance you will ever seen will show you how an incredible world record of the tokyo game took place with joe. and for me, the 1st off gun forces continue to battle the taliban for lash car das city. and there's concert and it will soon fall to the arm group. at least 40 people have been killed in the past 24 hours. the capital of the southern helman province has been seeing heavy fighting on frequent air strikes and saturday. nearby kandahar and several other cities are also under attack. the afghan government is deployed. it's a least special forces and it's carrying out airstrikes alongside us. forces are diplomatic or james basis, joining us from capital james. so how much pressure are afghan forces under and last? are gone well, we've spoken to local journalists who say that the fighting is the most intense.

it's been at any time in recent days. and there has been very heavy fighting in recent days. but apparently we've gotten far is absolutely non stop at the moment. the fighting, we believe is right in the heart of last year, go close to the governors compound, close to the police headquarters close to the prison in laska got those areas or have seen heavy fighting. we have some shocking news. statistics of the civilian death toll and all of this, the un now saying, 40 killed, 118, have been injured. the data coming from all sorts of places in alaska. it's obviously confuse, picture and communications are difficult. the emergency hospital, the italian run, the n g o that does excellent work, dealing with those who are war victims is only now taking in those that need surgery immediately to save their lives that take the sending all of the injured

elsewhere. they've had another 23 people admitted in recent hours. the un so concerned about the civilian casualties that they put out a statement saying civilians a bearing the brunt the parties must do more to protect civilians or the impact will be catastrophic. and they've also made it quite clear that the civilians who are being injured and who are dying of the result of the taliban ground offensive. and the strikes carried out by the african air for civilian casualties to from if you move from home to the neighboring province of canada and canada i city, the 2nd city of afghanistan, there are still touches the still civilians being injured. latest reports are male wise hospital, have 10 people that injured 3 of them. children. the 3rd city of afghanistan in the west is herat. there are still some class she's taking place there. we understand

the african government saying they've made some major grab, got got some major ground that pushed the taliban back and pushed them away from the center of the city. the tell about putting out videos though showing in parts of iraq. they are in control of the situation. one other bit of news from elsewhere in afghanistan in the north, closer to cobble in pisa province. the district that's not far away from background port, which used to be that big base for the u. s. and for nato that the district was in the hands and talked about the government say they've now recaptured, james. well, happy with us. let me just ask you about developments. for some afghans who have supported both military and non military staff during their time in the country, what more do we know? not? yeah, well, it's an expansion of the us scheme of visas for beyond those that were directly

interpreters for the u. s. military. so it's going to cover people working for us agencies, for example, for us media organizations. so i think for those people, it could be a good thing, but i think it's worth telling you that when you look at the detail, the bar is set pretty high. if you are one of those people who work for those organizations, you're going to need a lot of paperwork and letters from senior leaders in those organizations. the other thing is the capacity for the embassies to process. this is not there here enough kind of stuff. the u. s. embassy, can't do this work. so what they're saying to these people who are applying to this extended scheme is that you need to go to another country to the u. s embassy in another country. now that is problematic for guns, it is difficult to travel. i've just been talking about the security situation, which makes it difficult to travel anywhere enough. got a song and certainly to travel to any of the board. and of course then you've got to get across the border and get to

u. s. embassy. and remember that one of the countries, the nearest off chemist on for many would be the closest place to go be across the board to iran. of course, the u. s. doesn't have to have the magic relations with iran, so there's no u. s embassy that. ok, thank you. james bass, are the fanatic editor and reporting from couple now about lariche, an activist who was reported missing has been found dent in ukraine's capital kiff vitale. she show of lads a kiev based non profit organization that helps beller russians who are fleeing press persecution. the n g o has called his death a plunge operation. he was reported missing by his partner failing to return from a run. police have now launched a murder investigation. let's speak to peter. is that who the executive director of the razor democracy initiative? he's joining us by skype from key f. thanks for speaking to us. i know that this is personal for you and you knew him personally. tell us your reaction to this news.

it was obviously very tragic. very shocking. this was the 1st thing i heard when i woke up this morning and in fact we saw, i saw the tale last week and we were planning to have him on thursday. and a tv program which i host on the new tv, obviously very shocking, very personal, and also has implications for a large several 1000 strong community. bella, russian exiles, currently living in a police. now saying that they've launched a criminal case for a suspected murder, including whether investigating that. whoever killed him try to disguise the crime is a suicide. obviously, we don't know much so far, but why would he be a target? what already? indication that their physical science of some sort of national dungeon. so that's my rule out suicide. it's not plausible. i knew him. and that does not seem

credible to me. also what is kind of cruelly ironic about dining. so he had a bill of rushing housing, ukraine. it was large of a few minutes area organization that helps those who love fellows in ukraine. she was not the most visible. so activist such but i think his routine, his jogging routine was so well known to wherever was watching and that this was murder, that he was just in the target. and i think it's a malec. it's a signal that if he easily in his regime are, it will be of this once again, sending to the rest of the exiles ukraine and elsewhere to sit low, keep their miles shots. because this is what's gonna happen to you. this is an intimidating signal to the rest. was it known? what threats there was to his security? in fact, the last several weeks specifically with regards to mr. she's off, it's been reported that he was being followed himself,

kind of blew it off. he was aware of it, but last often didn't take it seriously enough. what maybe you will say the listing about it, knowing that simply there's no way to be secure from sage from bill a russian p g. b agents who apparently operated pretty freely in ukraine. you know, it's not for much political association assassination. there was one of a belt of major russian political activist x out here a few years ago. and so to see mosquito mr shed, it was also originally for bella was a famous journalist who was murdered here a few years ago. none of these murders had the investigations. there's no results. ukraine is very, has a very poor track record of finding out the culprits before. sure. let me just draw your attention to what happened at the tokyo olympics. of course, you're very much aware of the, by the russian athletes to christina, to me on a guy who said that she feared for her safety if she returned to by the ruth

for the president lucas shank. oh, i mean, this all might not bode very well for him, right? it doesn't, and i think it's would be saw with the scramble just to be. it is being reported receipt, humanitarian base, asylum in colon, husband, s flat, and he's here now in the city where i am in the ukraine. i think what it shows that look, guys pretty much feeling is that he's hands on tied. he has nothing to lose with the west. he feels anymore is, you know, he has no curry favor to curry with the rest. there's been a whole flight of sanctions slapped against him after the hijacking of this flying over bella rose savage, back in march. so i think luca shereka knows that the only salvation you can find is that the hands of light whose offer was willing to offer him just bear hot,

so to speak. but at the what i think at the expense of double rushing sober, we may expect the next 2 years to the bellows effectively disappear from the political map of the world as an independent state. we should wait to see what happens with this particular case for the time being. thank you so much for speaking to us. the peters only from ah, well, also taking a break to focus on her mental health. the u. s. domestic star simone biles has returned to action at the tokyo and picks to win a bronze medal. the 24 year old finishing behind 2 chinese competitors in the balance being final biles had previously pulled out of 5 other events in tokyo. and she'd been aiming to win 6 gold medals, but leaves with a silver under bronze to go with the 4 gold medals she won at the rio games in 2016. and richardson is joining us from tokyo. so no gold metal. the

thing biles back in action and it was good for the games. i think so. yeah, everybody loves a good come back story and spool not quite that the golden finish. we might have dreamt silver written about if we were making it into a hollywood movie. but nonetheless, she put in a close to flawless performance in that balance, been final worth remembering. it's not one of her strongest disciplines. she want to bronze medal in that discipline in radio, in 2016 when she was at the absolute peak of her powers worth remembering what, what she's been through. i mean, to pull out of that said all around teen final, to be brave enough and candid enough in that press conference straight afterwards to not say out a slight injury, but to say, i'm going to go and focus on my mental health. it's something that sent out really positive message to lots of other athletes at these olympics. and subsequently she has been active in talking to fans on social media about her classes to get her

mind and body back in. think cache is also being very visible around the athletes village and other competition venue, supporting her other teammates. and now he's, she's back doing what she needs, what she does best winning that bronze medal in what could well be the final olympic performance of her, of her amazing korea. okay. and do thank you so much for that update from tokyo. chinese authorities are trying to contain an outbreak of the delta variance have covered 19 which has now spread to half the provinces in china and 10 days of the 6 regions have completed mass testing and people are being told not to leave their home city. katrina, you has more from vision. the changing the highly infectious delta variant has broken through china is strict corbett 19 defenses, closed borders. strict locked downs and mast hasting have not been enough to prevent the country's worst outbreak. in months. hundreds of cases had been found

in more than 30 cities. in 16 provinces, china's leaders say the capital waging must be protected at all costs. several neighborhoods aren't locked down after and sections were discovered last week. flights trains and buses from the affected areas have been suspended. residents have been warned not to leave. the city to weak quarantines have been imposed. large scale events has been cancelled, and public venues ordered to limit capacity. contact tracing teams have been mobilized where a d gene find deliver confirmed close or secondary contacts will be current in those who leave and work with them will be banned from joining any gatherings. and also subject to close move management by their, what places or local community, etc. and then the outbreak originated early last month in the southern city of non ging airport janice's tested positive after cleaning a flight which arrived from russia. the cities, more than 9000000 residents underwent 3 rounds of testing in 2 weeks. authorities

have identified a possible supers better event in the tourist hotspot of jungle jet was several cases were linked to a theater performance attended by 2000 people. the attraction has been shut down, and tourists told to stay away. up until july, much of china had reported the record of our cases. the apparent success had been a source of national pride. but this latest flare up of the delta vary interest for an inter question 900 strategy and put more pressure on the nation the vaccine rollout. sean is current strategy of 0 tolerance shooting, prove. we must learn to co exist with the corona virus. we need to accept that it's impossible to be completely free of the virus for a long period of time. health officials say more than 1600000000 vaccines have been administered so far, but they won't be vaccinated, may not be enough to avoid catching the delta strain. the government has begun

vaccinating children and is considering offering booster shots to vulnerable groups . the outbreak tightens china's economic recovery and its ability to horse spectators during the 2022 winter olympic games last year president, she didn't ping, declared victory over carved 19 a declaration. it seems that was premature. katrina, you al jazeera paging. so heads on minis. our lead on, still looking for answer is almost a year after the capital was walked by a huge explosion. find out why a nicaraguan beauty queen and a former ruler fighter and common sport here from the russian athlete at the center for diplomatic ro, i think, okay, ah,

now you think from looking at satellite picture of europe that most the worry would be in the amount of rain throughout the sky, but as you know, that is not the case. there is plenty of rain around admittedly, but it's further south where you've had the real worry where temperatures are high . and in some cases, dear record high, it's been persistent, not particularly true in the southeast of europe and across in turkey, as well as the focus briefly on turkey. temperatures are not extraordinarily high, but they are getting close to 43 is just about the record value from tallies not truth for all of to keep it. look at the winds as well and all of the government through the g and, and it's gusting also over the hills. a very, very dry wind. you know, the problem as far as this is the one that was covered so much yesterday. but of course, the break handled over the place in the same is true in greece, and the weather is not going to help. it's still hot and dry and tardy is temperature will only ease a high degree, may be so there's not much change taking place in this part of turkey. as

a warning after high temperatures to day for southern grease and or so for sicily, the temperatures probably will ease a little bit next day or so. for example, in palermo, down to about 29. by the time we get to thursday. but for the most part, the heat remains ah, the a multi $1000000.00 online sex, and the philippines is black mailing men from around the world, one on one east uncovered. how small time syndicate became a terminal empire. on al jazeera, after a one year delay tokyo olympics off finally did. despite growing opposition and spiraling costs, fountains of athletes completing an empty stadium amid the corona virus and damage algae here it will be inside the olympic bubble. bringing you the latest from again, right? no other.